A Fine Japanese Shijo Ink Drawing by Onishi Chinnen 1792-1851
17 3/8 x 11 1/2 ins. (44.2 x 29.3 cms) Chinnen was one of the leaders and one of the most accomplished of the Shijo School artists. Apart from his paintings and drawings he was responsible for a number of block-printed books of the which the most celebrated, and an acknowledged masterpiece, is Sonan Gafu of 1834. Many of his drawings were designed for makimono (horizontal scroll)...
A Fine Japanese Shijo Ink Drawing by Onishi Chinnen 1792-1851
19 1/2 x 11 1/2 ins. (49.5 x 29.3 cms) Chinnen was one of the leaders and one of the most accomplished of the Shijo School artists. Apart from his paintings and drawings he was responsible for a number of block-printed books of the which the most celebrated, and an acknowledged masterpiece, is Sonan Gafu of 1834. Many of his drawings were designed for makimono (horizontal scroll)...
A Fine Japanese Shijo Ink Drawing by Onishi Chinnen 1792-1851
18 1/4 x 11 1/2 ins. (46.3 x 29.3 cms) Chinnen was one of the leaders and one of the most accomplished of the Shijo School artists. Apart from his paintings and drawings he was responsible for a number of block-printed books of the which the most celebrated, and an acknowledged masterpiece, is Sonan Gafu of 1834. Many of his drawings were designed for makimono (horizontal scroll)...
A Japanese Woodblock Print by Hasegawa Konobu 1930s.
16 1/2 x 11 1/4 ins. (41.9 x 28.7 cms) Konobu was an Osaka artist born in 1914. He seems to have produced 2 series of Bunraku puppets, one in the 1930's of which this print is an example and another post-war in the 1950s. The pre-war designs are more bold and striking. There is another from the series in Honolulu Museum of Art where the series title is given as Junreika. The eyes on the present print are slightly burnished black...
A Japanese Woodblock Print by Hasegawa Konobu 1930s.
16 1/2 x 11 1/4 ins. (41.9 x 28.7 cms) Konobu was an Osaka artist born in 1914. He seems to have produced 2 series of Bunraku puppets, one in the 1930's of which this print is an example and another post-war in the 1950s. The pre-war designs are more bold and striking. There is another from the series in Honolulu Museum of Art where the series title is given as Junreika. The eyes on the present print are slightly burnished black...
A Japanese Woodblock Print by Sadanobu Hasegawa. 1970s
11 3/8 x 8 1/4 ins. (29 x 21 cms) Sadanobu Hasegawa born in 1914 was the 4th. generation of the Sadanobu print making dynasty. Most of his prints, as with this example, were published by the famous Uchida company of Kyoto. The print is in perfect condition. The marks in the right hand margin are the marks of the "kento" on the printing blocks which ensure correct register of the blocks...
A Japanese Woodblock Print by Eisen 1830s. Edo Period
14 1/2 x 9 7/8 ins. (36.9 x 25.2 cms) This design shows a courtesan, accompanied by a large box in a furoshiki, standing with the gardens of Fukagawa Temple, Tokyo, in the background. It was published in the 1830s. by an unidentified publisher...
A Japanese Woodblock Print by Kuniyoshi 1830s. Edo Period
14 1/4 x 9 1/2 ins. (36.2 x 24.3 cms) This rare and charming design from Kuniyoshi was published by Kagaya Kichibei. It is signed Cho-o-ro Kuniyoshi, a signature he used in the 1830s. The treatment of the subject is unusual, almost Ukiyoe meets the Pre-Raphaelites! and the naturalistic pose very unusual for the period. We have been unable to find an example on the internet or elsewhere. The print is a bit of a wreck and has a number ...
A Japanese Woodblock Bijin Print by Eisen. 1830s. Edo Period.
14 x 9 1/4 ins. (35.5 x 23.5 cms) Although it is a bit of a wreck this print is still a classic Eisen image. Good examples of this artist's work are now very expensive. It was published in the 1830s by an unidentified publisher. The print is faded with a number of stains. There is some neatly repaired wormage and a strengthening patch on the stain lower right.
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS AN ORIGINAL PRINTING NOT A FACSIMILE OR REPRIN...
A Chiaroscuro Woodblock Print by John Baptist Jackson 18th. century
14 3/4 x 10 ins. (37.5 x 25.4 cms) Portrait of Algernon Sidney, after Justus van Egmont; short half-length to left, head turned and looking towards the viewer; wearing a cravat with tassels, hair in loose curls to the shoulders; in an oval. Chiaroscuro woodcut printed from four blocks in black, brown and ochre.
Lettered around the oval 'Zustus Verus pinx: / J:B:J. sculp: et exc:'; below the image with a quotation fro...
Large Chiaroscuro Woodblock Print by John Baptist Jackson 1741
22 1/4 x 15 1/2 ins. (56.5 x 38.5 cms) This very large woodblock print by John Baptist Jackson shows Pharaoh's daughter surrounded by her women, standing beneath a tree, pointing to the infant Moses whom one of her attendants holds in a basket; after a painting then said to be by Veronese, but in fact by Sebastiano Ricci. 1741. The Latin inscription reads "Ex tabella a Paulo Caliari Veron. depicta penes J.Smith Ven. J.B.Jackso...
A Prize Winning Japanese Lithographic Print 1957 by Izumi Shigeru. 1957
16 1/2 x 12 ins. (41.8 x 30.5 cms) We have been unable to find out much about Izumi Shigeru except that his dates are 1922-1995. There are several of his works in the British Museum. The present example, entitled "Peacock", won a prize at International Print Art Biennale in Tokyo in 1957. It is signed in pencil by the artist and is no. 2 of a limited edition of 100. The print is in very good condition, there is a minor c...
A Japanese Sosaku Hanga Woodblock Print by Junichiro Sekino (1914-1988). !969.
21 1/4 x 16 1/8 ins. (54 x 41.2 cms) This fine design is No. 12 from a series of 53 Stations of the Tokaido published in 1969 and shows the Mishima Shrine with three men warming their hands at a small bonfire. Sekino was a very fine artist and one of the most prominent members of the Sosaku Hanga movement. The use of a vertical bisecting the design goes back to Yoshitoshi and is something few Western artists woul...
A Japanese Red Raku Signed Chawan Tea Bowl. Late Edo Period.
Ht. 3 1/2 x Diam. 5 5/8 ins. (8.9 x 13.7 cms) The majority of Raku chawan have a single raku seal which is not helpful in identifying individual potters. In this case the seal reads Shosai who is indentified in the "Catalogue of the Morse Collection of Japanese Pottery in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts" (Cambridge Mass. 1900) as being a tea-lover of Osaka named Furoshi Shosai who made Raku wares at the old Kikko kilns (see catalog...
A Fine Japanese Bizen Stoneware Mizusashi. Signed. 20th. century
Ht. 5 1/4 ins. Diam. 7 1/4 ins. (13.4 x 18.5 cms) This fine mizusashi (fresh water jar for the Tea Ceremony) is probably a product of the Bizen kilns but we have been unable to read the impressed seal. Most attempts by modern potters to capture the unselfconscious and deliberate deforming and marking of the clay of earlier times are not convincing but the maker of this jar has succeeded splendidly.
Condition is perfect...
